authoring a combobox control from scratch

[Mick Doherty]

OHM,
do you have a picture to describe better what it is that you want?
Doesn't sound too difficult to me, a shaped control with a few collection
based properties, several components and a little Interop. I don't have the
time to build it as I'm off on a walkabout in Australia shortly (for an
undetermined length of time), but it sounds perfectly feasible to me.
Also do you want the Trapezoid shape to be adjustable within the designer?
i.e. just grab a corner and drag it rather than resize. Should the movies be
scaled, clipped, or the Items sized to fit?

LOL

Sorry Guy, I don't know of any examples. Could you not just Inherit from
combobox and modify it suit your needs?

P.S. anybody else fancy a walkabout?

 

[One Handed Man [ OHM# ]]

Erm, lets see now.

As your asking. I only have a mental picture but I will try and send it to
you using Interop . . . . . There ya go, now, as you can see the background
has pictures of our favourite top three posters here. ( me not included or
course because I am a Newbie Newbie and dont know much. ).

As you can see, each row is skewable in any direction either at run time or
at design time, the movies I want to play must be different for each item, I
want to be able to watch a streaming video of MadMax in position one and
From Dusk Till Dawn in position two, all other positions are use
configurable. The opacity of the control should automatically fade to see
through each time the mouse pointer approaches the drop down selecter to
provide entertainment for the user.

I want in-place freeze frame editing for each item, and need a raunchy-bit
frame attribute so we can stop at the good bits. When I press the "Shave"
button I want you to design, ( hover by the way ), I want the control to
turn into a mirror so I can shave, brush my teeth and floss.

Hope that spec is ok with you.

Regards - OHM

OHM,
do you have a picture to describe better what it is that you want?
Doesn't sound too difficult to me, a shaped control with a few
collection based properties, several components and a little Interop.
I don't have the time to build it as I'm off on a walkabout in
Australia shortly (for an undetermined length of time), but it sounds
perfectly feasible to me.
Also do you want the Trapezoid shape to be adjustable within the
designer? i.e. just grab a corner and drag it rather than resize.
Should the movies be scaled, clipped, or the Items sized to fit?

LOL

Sorry Guy, I don't know of any examples. Could you not just Inherit
from combobox and modify it suit your needs?

P.S. anybody else fancy a walkabout?

OK Then Herfired,

Build me the following ComboBox control from scratch using VB.NET.

I want a completely new look and feel for the comboBox. Instead of
being a combination of a ListBox and a TextBox drawn in a rectangle.
I now want my combo box to by MultiColumn, with inBuilt Sortable
ColumnHeads. In addition to this I want the shape to be a trapezoid
rather than a rectangle. Change the Look and feel of the ComboBox so
that Instead of being 3D gray dropdown I want Mirror Effect, and
also as a background. Oh Yeah, and just for luck I also want to be
able to play movies in each item.

Now do that using VB !

OHM

* "One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com>
scripsit:
Explain how !

Explain why it should be possible with the "SDK" and not possible
with VB.NET.

;-)

Regards - OHM# OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com

Regards - OHM# OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com

 

[Mick Doherty]

Skewable: that was the word I was looking for, but my tongue was not quite
long enough for me to see it (couldn't see past my huge nose).
Now that looks like an interesting control and I still see no real problems.
It should be a standard control with the release of VS.NET 20004 (minimum
system requirements permitting).

;-)

Erm, lets see now.

As your asking. I only have a mental picture but I will try and send it to
you using Interop . . . . . There ya go, now, as you can see the background
has pictures of our favourite top three posters here. ( me not included or
course because I am a Newbie Newbie and dont know much. ).

As you can see, each row is skewable in any direction either at run time or
at design time, the movies I want to play must be different for each item, I
want to be able to watch a streaming video of MadMax in position one and
From Dusk Till Dawn in position two, all other positions are use
configurable. The opacity of the control should automatically fade to see
through each time the mouse pointer approaches the drop down selecter to
provide entertainment for the user.

I want in-place freeze frame editing for each item, and need a raunchy-bit
frame attribute so we can stop at the good bits. When I press the "Shave"
button I want you to design, ( hover by the way ), I want the control to
turn into a mirror so I can shave, brush my teeth and floss.

Hope that spec is ok with you.

Regards - OHM

OHM,
do you have a picture to describe better what it is that you want?
Doesn't sound too difficult to me, a shaped control with a few
collection based properties, several components and a little Interop.
I don't have the time to build it as I'm off on a walkabout in
Australia shortly (for an undetermined length of time), but it sounds
perfectly feasible to me.
Also do you want the Trapezoid shape to be adjustable within the
designer? i.e. just grab a corner and drag it rather than resize.
Should the movies be scaled, clipped, or the Items sized to fit?

LOL

Sorry Guy, I don't know of any examples. Could you not just Inherit
from combobox and modify it suit your needs?

P.S. anybody else fancy a walkabout?

OK Then Herfired,

Build me the following ComboBox control from scratch using VB.NET.

I want a completely new look and feel for the comboBox. Instead of
being a combination of a ListBox and a TextBox drawn in a rectangle.
I now want my combo box to by MultiColumn, with inBuilt Sortable
ColumnHeads. In addition to this I want the shape to be a trapezoid
rather than a rectangle. Change the Look and feel of the ComboBox so
that Instead of being 3D gray dropdown I want Mirror Effect, and
also as a background. Oh Yeah, and just for luck I also want to be
able to play movies in each item.

Now do that using VB !

OHM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:
* "One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com>
scripsit:
Explain how !

Explain why it should be possible with the "SDK" and not possible
with VB.NET.

;-)

Regards - OHM# OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com

Regards - OHM# OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com